Handbrake is an encoder which can also "ignore" some copy protection schemes. AnyDVD specializes in actually ripping. Typically if AnyDVD cannot get you a usable file output, nothing can.

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This software also does some of what AnyDVD does as well, I am trying it out now and so far it seems pretty impressive. AnyDVD is still the standard.

Dyna - Do you know of any easy way to use AnyDVD to rip files for your DVD backups and then copy over to mac and convert to Apple TV or iPod? I was thinking you could use Fusion or such and then run AnyDVD on it. Then take the file over to native Mac OS and convert it to any format using one of the software programs? What do you think is best for this?

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